Jeffrey Selingo at the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that although the hype about MOOCs is dying down, they “are changing how students learn, how professors teach and grade, and how higher-education leaders figure out what differentiates face-to-face instruction from online learning.” He specifically states that MOOC providers need to address the following questions:
- What role should MOOCs play at traditional colleges and universities? Selingo states that “college leaders should focus on using MOOCs to complement and enhance their continuing-education programs, as the number of options students have for education in small bites and on their own schedule continues to grow.”
- How do universities make open online courses actually open? Selingo argues that “MOOCs are not really open in a way that allows anyone to adapt and redistribute courses or that allows open collaboration among users.”
- How can the quality and success of MOOCs be measured? Selingo suggests that MOOC providers and their college partners do not have the best interests of MOOC students in mind and “still view free online courses through the lens of the traditional, on-campus students they are accustomed to teaching.”
http://chronicle.com/article/MOOC-U-The-Revolution-Isnt/149039/